Updated January 13, 2023 by the ABC7 Data Team


ABC7 is tracking crime and safety across the city of Chicago and in your neighborhood.

You can choose which crime to explore:

Homicides
709

Last 12 months
Through December 31

Average Homicides
696

Yearly average
2019 to 2021

Homicide Rate
26.3

Per 100,000 people
Last 12 months

Average Homicide Rate
25.8

Per 100,000 people
2019 to 2021


Homicides over the last 12 months are trending down 11.7% compared to 2021, according to Chicago Police Department data through December 31.

However, the murder rate over the last 12 months is up compared to the annual average over the last three years, and the frequency of killings remains higher than it was before the pandemic.

The city averaged 14 homicides a week over the last 12 months. In 2019, that number was 10 a week.

One way to think about the danger: three years ago, the murder rate was 18.5 per 100,000 residents.

That was already considerably higher than the risk of dying in a vehicle crash in Illinois.

During the pandemic, a person’s chance of being murdered in Chicago rose to almost three times the likelihood of dying in a crash.


The risk is not the same neighborhood to neighborhood.

ABC7’s data team looked at the Chicago Police Department’s crime incident data by community area from 2019 through December 31, 2022. Totals here include murders, but not involuntary manslaughter or justifiable homicide.

A closer look at Chicago homicides by neighborhood

The map color codes each neighborhood by the homicide rate over the last 12 months. The three darker blues highlight neighborhoods where the murder rate is higher than the citywide rate.

You can click any neighborhood to see detailed numbers or the buttons at the bottom of the map to switch between numbers and rates. You can search for a street, place, landmark or zip code to zoom to that location.